Can Community Be Your Lifeline? A Conversation With the Co-Founders of Mesh
Episode 27
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Jess Zakira Wise and Jessica Moreno are two of the Co-Founders of Mesh, the first platform designed by community experts to connect, moderate, and monetize communities. Mesh provides tools for leaders to create self-sustaining communities with their most pressing problems in mind: money, safety, and security.
Jess Zakira Wise has worked as a community manager, film producer, progressive activist and storyteller. She believes agency for community leaders builds true accountability, diversity leads to sustainability, and community is the centerpiece. When she came up with an idea of how to confront the challenges and inequities of social platforms, particularly for her LGBTQ+ community, she enlisted her friend Drew, and Mesh was born.
Jessica Moreno is the former Head of Community at Reddit and the co-founder of Imzy (a community-based platform) and RedditGifts. She built a career in understanding what works — and what doesn’t — when it comes to building, managing, and operating online communities. She believes, “what the internet can and should be is much more than what’s offered.”
Episode 27 of Create Community is about creating sustainable online communities, community as a lifeline, and why it’s more important than ever to maintain democracy within communities.
